NetWare Directory Services

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Planning NetWare Directory Services Implementation
Guidelines for Implementing NDS
4 Decide on the model for your Directory tree.
Your Directory tree can model your organization, unit, and workgroup
breakdown charts, or it can follow administrative, geographical, and functional
divisions present within your organization.
See “Creating Directory Tree Maps” and “Placing Leaf Objects in the Directory
Tree” in this chapter.
5 Develop strategies for adequate replication of the partitions to
• Provide fault olerance
• Decrease traffic over WAN links
You should plan to divide the Directory database into partitions based on logical
boundaries, and replicate those partitions where you want users to access them
without having to go over WAN links.
See “Developing a Replication Strategy” in this chapter.
6 Choose a method for providing time synchronization for the Directory. You must
designate which time servers you want to use as time source servers.
See “Developing a Time Synchronization Strategy” in this chapter.
7 Develop a strategy for implementing NDS security.
You can use the design of the tree to implement security for containers and the
objects in the containers.
See “Developing a Security Strategy for the Directory Tree” in this chapter.
8 (Conditional) Develop a strategy for supporting bindery services.
See Chapter 4, “Understanding Bindery Services.”